Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said on Sunday that he first began pondering the dismissal of head football coach Randy Edsall after the Terps were chased out of their stadium by Bowling Green a month ago, but he began having doubts about the direction of the program late last season.
If you recall, the Terps were cruising to a very uplifting finish in 2014 until they blew a 25-point lead over Rutgers and lost at Byrd Stadium, their final regular-season game, and then got trounced by Stanford in the Foster Farms Bowl.
Suddenly, their great debut season in the Big Ten Conference didn't look quite so great, and it was apparent that the 2015 season was going to be a bigger challenge.